BlackBerry News

And it's here! The 4G BlackBerry PlayBook is finally available to the public (yes, only in Canada for now, but still!) on Rogers, Bell and Telus. The PlayBook is available for the outright price of $549.99 for the 32GB version (the only one available).

Two thousand geeks at the same time and place, with tons of talks, discussions and non-stop activities. That was Campus Party Recife, held for the first time in the Northeast of Brazil, and considered by the organizers to be THE best Campus Party ever. Research in Motion was present
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As Apple and Samsung continue their legal battle over who copied who, users are starting to get tired of the legal fiasco. The most recent comic by Joy of Tech, has relayed this overall feeling to be the case. For us BlackBerry users, the greatest part about the comic is when the Torch 9800 shows up at the end

The BlackBerry Beta Zone has now pushed a new Twitter for BlackBerry beta today. We're told this build is mainly focused on back-end work with a heavy emphasis on bug fixes (think Timeline issues). However there are two new features in v3.2:

At long last, the long awaited developer conference to be held from Septermber 25-27 in sunny San Jose California is now open for registration. The event will be hosted at the San Jose Convention Center. Historically, this is the most affordable conference to date with the low early bird
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RIM continues to step up global marketing efforts for BlackBerry 7 with a new commercial released in Thailand. We have heard already that this would happen even though BlackBerry 10 is coming in Jan of 2013. RIM has said they will still continue to market and support BlackBerry 7 devices as

These Olympic games have been so much fun. Last night Usain Bolt added to the fun when he set a new Olympic record in the 100m Men's final heat (9.63sec). After securing the gold medal, he was interviewed and asked how long he planned on enjoying the victory before he's back at it for
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With the upcoming release of the 4G PlayBook on August 9th, it seems that some Canadian retailers are trying to clear out their WiFi-only inventory. Best Buy Canada has lowered the cost of the 16,32 & 64GB models by $20.00 ($179, $229 & $279 respectively).

London - Research In Motion's CEO Thorsten Heins sat down with The Telegraph to talk about the current focus of the company, and how it plans on utilizing its new operating system BlackBerry 10. The man responsible for the success BlackBerry, is still maintaining his confidence in his
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When we hear the words thermal imaging, a variety of products can come to mind. For me, the first thing that popped into my head when I heard that RIM has patented a real-time thermal imaging augmented reality display, was military use. What better way for RIM to make money then to bring to the market BlackBerry as the smartphone for military personnel - on or off the field. Or, let's swing into another

Official OS 7.1.0.580 has been released for the Bold 9930 from Verizon. If you have a Bold 9930 its time once again to get out that USB cord and give your device a fresh OS, and as always, please remember to let us know about any findings/fixes in the comments below.

Verizon Wireless has just released a list of more cities and areas that are now covered under their 4G LTE service. It's nice to see that some of these areas being covered now are mid sized and smaller towns. This is a great sign that 4G is not too far off from reaching all areas that have 3G service. Keep in mind that some of